Doctoral students at the Chair
Ongoing PhD projects
Pauline Dunkel, Dipl.-Soz.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Images of crisis - a structural reconstruction of (late) modern representations of crisis in the mass media with Roland Barthes"
Mirjam Gräbner, Dipl.-Soz.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Gender narratives in tourism discourses in the Federal Republic and the GDR around 1970" (working title)
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Richard Gross, Dipl.-Soz.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Deep Learning as a social situation. Intelligent infrastructures, informational emergence and communication" (working title)
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Marianne Heinze, M.A.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Commodity-aesthetic subjectivity. Shifts and renewals in discourses of alternative consumption" (working title)
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Lilian Leupold, Dipl.-Soz.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Consumer Dispositions and Work Orientations: An Analysis Among Business Professionals"
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Jan Wetzel, M.A.
Topic of the dissertation project:
"Society by Design. A contribution to the sociology of design"
Completed PhD theses (supervisor Dominik Schrage):
Dr. Felix Schilk, Dipl.-Soz. (since 1.5.2023 employee in the project "REDACT: Researching Europe, Digitalization and Conspiracy Theory" at the University of Tübingen)
Title of the dissertation:
"The new-right narrative community. A Sociology of Conservative Crisis Narratives" (defended on December 18, 2023 at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden).
Published in August 2024 by transcript (open access) under the title "Die Erzählgemeinschaft der Neuen Rechten. On the political sociology of conservative crisis narratives".
Awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation 2024.
Max Lionel Ischebeck, Dipl.-Soz. (Head of the public music school in Springe and guitarist in the independent jazz scene)
Title of dissertation:
"Subject culture and musical defragmentation. The specific social function of music in the Romantic period around 1800 and in the German Technoculture of the 1990s" (defended on 23.11.2023 at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Marc Drobot, Dipl.-Soz. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) (since 1.10.2023 wiss. Employee at the Chair of Sociological Theories at Chemnitz University of Technology)
Title of the dissertation:
"ˌzolidaʁiˈtɛːt. A historical-sociological study on the change in function and interpretation of the concept of solidarity" (defended on 10.10.2023 at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden)
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Hoklas, M.A. (since 1.11.2017 Research Associate at the Chair)
Title of the dissertation:
"Media music listening as a sociomaterial practice in transition. Generation-specific practices and orientations of audio media use" (defended on 25.10.2017 at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden)
Dr. Miklas Schulz(University of Hanover, currently visiting professor at the University of Hildesheim)
Title of the dissertation:
"Auditivity and hermeneutics. The reconstruction of ways of hearing under the conditions of technological (re)producibility of language" (defended on 3.11.2016 at the University of Lüneburg)
The revised version of the dissertation was published in 2017 under the title "Hören als Praxis. Sinnliche Wahrnehmungsweisen technisch (re-)produzierter Sprache" in the series "Auditive Vergesellschaftungen" published by VS Verlag, Wiesbaden.